The Message of Science. 61 



For the brain is " formed " and the courses of thought 

 molded to doctrinal ideas, taught by church authority. 

 When these doctrines have been inculcated for centuries, 

 and then found to be wrong, the task of rectification is a 

 most disheartening one. Considered in gross, the entire 

 brain of humanity, at present, is under the spell of 

 erroneous creeds, and does its thinking along perverted 

 channels of mentation. The belief that this earth is 

 merely a place of probation for heaven after the death of 

 the body is the worst possible initiative for the achieve- 

 ment of that natural salvation which is, and has ever been, 

 the real goal of life. Mankind cannot rise in opposition 

 to its own faith, nor will the effort to attain a natural 

 salvation begin in earnest until the truth and the facts 

 concerning the soul of man are understood and accepted. 



The inference and argument for natural salvation have 

 brought us, step by step, from the protozoon to that 

 wonderful congeries and federation of cells, grouped about 

 the cerebro-spinal axis of man ; in other words, to man in 

 his present imperfect social organization ; his blindly sel- 

 fish attitude to his fellow-beings ; his weapons and engines 

 of destruction ; his standing armies and navies ; his wars 

 and his antagonistic creeds. That confident cooperation 

 and good-will to his fellows, necessary to organize 

 humanity for its crowning achievement the achieve- 



